liar!

Some people like to complain that politics is everywhere and since they like to stick their heads in the sand and go "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU", they prefer not to see political memes, or memes with political figures that aren't political in nature.

Some people down vote popular things because they are popular.

Some people just have a hate boner for a specific user and sometimes follow them around to down vote anything they post.

And statistically there's probably at least one republican around trying not to act like a lizard in a chinchilla suit.

Some people down vote popular things because they are popular.
Didn't downvote this myself, but I can understand why some people would. I have personally blocked numerous users and communities who post variations of the exact same post over and over and over again.
There are only so many times I can read the same bloody thing about Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Israel, and Linux.
I agree. Trump/Musk/Netanyahu are arseholes. Linux is awesome. But I don't bloody well want to read a variation of the same post every single time I access Lemmy.
- Reposts get old and seeing the same joke with 8 meme formats that are all basically the same "drake meme/pooh meme/geordi meme" style gets old even quicker unless you can put some kind of spin on it to make it fresh.
  My biggest gripe with the fediverse is seeing the exact same post in 15 different communities over the course of 2-3 days. But if that's the price of the fediverse, I'm fine paying it. Sometimes the discussions in the comments get WAY different.
  And of course since it's still fairly small compared to other sites, and there are always more people coming in, the amount of people who have seen that thing posted for the first time is still pretty high.
  I have to keep reminding myself that not everyone has as many pockets of downtime as I do, so while I'm on for about 5-20 minutes at a time, I get on many times over the day so I see most posts during my waking hours. So just because I've seen this "I sleep/ real shit" meme 8 times this week, hundreds of people are seeing it for the first time. And even if I've seen "this country leader did a CRAZY THING! How messed up is that!" every single day, some people didn't get on yesterday to see it and probably don't feel like commenting on posts a day old is accepted (I say comment on old posts all day of you want, I've had tons of forum discussions in posts that are years old)
  I ramble a lot, sorry. But my point is "reposts and rehashed discussions get annoying but they're a price of the fediverse and new members and more people could comment on old posts instead of making new ones"
  
  I love Summit for Lemmy, it has an option to group repost together so you don't see too many repeating posts. It's not perfect but keeps me from seeing the same post too many times.
There are also those with fat fingers, but that’s probably only one or two people
There are also quite a few "this isn't helping, we need to focus seriously on...." people
An applicable grain of wisdom for anyone leaning to the first camp in this list:
"Burying your head in the sand just makes it easier to kick you in the ass"

I didn't downvote but it's low effort to invent Trump stupidity when there's years of public statements of his stupidity to highlight.

you could argue that it is more effort

Merkel is pretty unpopular among the German left. There’s a lot of things she did wrong, but the big one is that she was a big reason for why Germany was dependent on Russian Gas for heating and electricity until the next government cut off the pipelines after they invaded the Ukraine.

Of course, there are also a lot of things she did right and she was probably a major factor in keeping Germany stable during the 16 years in which she was leading the country, but these kind of memes still seem a bit ignorant about her.

some could view it as unfunny(personally i dislike the 'grandmas facebook had a leftist baby with a political propaganda poster'-style posts but i cant downvote or see downvotes anyways, that aspect of reddit has always been anger inducing for me so im glad i don't have access to it.) i dont see this meme as being bad though; air left my nose, dopamine pathways were activated.

You see, the downvote button is tiny and right next to the tiny upvote button

Authoritarian sympathy.